The warm weather we’ve been having recently appears to have brought on changes in people’s casual attire, with many women opting to wear shorter shorts/skirts than they would ordinarily wear.
As a result, I’ve noticed that some women have large, round, dark purple bruises on their thighs with diameters ranging from that of a nickel to that of a fifty-cent piece. This trend seems to be much more common among overweight women, who sometimes exhibit multiple such bruises. These bruises don’t appear to be confined to the inner/outer thighs or to the front/back of the thighs, and I have not noticed any signs of bruising elsewhere on their bodies.
What is the cause of this bruising? Why does this phenomenon seem to be less common among women who are slender??
Perhaps pressure bruises from armed chairs? I know (as an overweight man) that some armed chairs (office chairs, kitchen chairs, etc) can be a tight fit.
Is this correct? I thought it was the other way around: obesity was a contributing factor in (adult-onset) diabetes. Actually, I imagine the two conditions contribute to each other. [/hijack]
Being a chubby girl myself, I have a guess based on my own experience. Sometimes I can’t judge my own body boundaries, and get in a hurry or don’t pay attention, and ram my thighs or butt onto corners of desks, etc. OWIE!!
I really don’t want to sound like a pretentious prick, but, no matter how I phrase it, I’m sure I’ll come across that way. So, I’ll just cut right to the chase . . .
This is GQ, not IMHO. If you don’t really know the answer to a factual question that someone poses, please don’t guess.
I’d prefer not to give any specific answers or ‘rebuttals’ in order to protect the [del]innocent, er, guilty[/del], well in order to protect everyone.
Again, I apologize. I know that people will take me to task for being like this, but I, and I think most others, come to GQ for answers, not opinions.
I agree with lori and jayjay. It’s tough enuf to keep from runnin into stuff when i’m at a small weight/size. Methinks these gals you’ve seen are bumping into things more often than your average person.
BTW Karl, if you think this is in the wrong forum, there’s always that little button which says “report this post”.
As an ex superobese person, I can say with all GD certainty, that it is because you’re constantly running into objects with space for conventional people. I used to have small bruises all over my body from moving in and out of tight spaces.
You didn’t start the OP. And you didn’t provide *any * answer, even a “guess” (which was, BTW, a “guess” based on experience ). So why are **you ** in this thread?
I’m a super skinny woman and I always have bruises on my legs. You may just be seeing them more now that folks are wearing shorts, but I run into stuff all the time, that and doors seem to jump out at me.
I’m also stalked by a particular coffee table, FWIW.
1: Some people are simply easily bruised, and (women much more so than men) and many women (fat and not) tend to get all sorts of small “mystery” bruises on their legs if they are active.
2: Mojave66 is correct and larger than normal people are always being bumped, and squeezed as they move through their day.
I can appreciate there is a fine line between guessing and knowing, but in trying to speculate about the origin of mystery bruises how the heck is there going to be a hard objective answer to something that could have a number of causes? I posted my answer, and as an ex-fatty myself, and someone who was married to an overweight woman, I’m absolutely confident that it’s an accurate speculation, but how they heck is anyone (for this kind of somewhat amorphous question) going to have THE answer?
